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Fifteen minutes later she heard the
front door opening and her mother
was entering. After a few
more minutes the girl came into the
kitchen, still clad in her uniform. She
was in year twelve. “Hey Kate,” she said. “Hey Lib,” replied Kate, “come and
have a look at this, I thought I’d
keep it for you,” “Well I’m a little old for that,” said
her mother as she saw the toy
plane. Kate explained that it had sweets in
it, and while she poured the ones in
the newspaper onto her hand, her
mother placed the aircraft in the
breast pocket of her school blouse.
More little specks fell into the bottom of the cotton pocket.
“What’re they?” asked Kate’s
mother, who had just entered the
room with a bit of shopping. “Tiny jellies, I think,” said Kate as she
held out her hand in offering, “Have
some,” The woman moistened her finger
with her tongue and planted it in
her mother’s palm. She raised it
back to her mouth and licked off
dozens of the tiny jelly-like specks
that stuck to it, pressing them to the roof of her mouth as she tasted
them squishing on her tongue. More
still stuck to her finger, which she
put to her mouth, and cleaned with
her lips as she sucked the remaining
tiny spots off it. “Hmmmm… they’re okay, though
nothing special,” she said while
running her tongue around her
mouth to collect the stray jellies. “Hand them over here,” said Libby
as she cupped her palm. Kate tipped
the tiny lollies into her mother’s hand,
but some still stuck to her own. She
wiped her sweaty hand down her
side, leaving a few tiny red smudges on her skin. The young girl looked at the dozens
of tiny pink specks in her palm
before tipping them into her mouth.
They fell onto her lips and on her
tongue. “I reckon they’re pretty good,” she
said as she ran her tongue over her
lips, collecting the tiny bits. “Try and open it if no more are
coming out,” suggested Kate as she
returned to her paper. There were a
few little specks scattered over the
seat as she sat down, but her bikini
pressed them into small red dots. Libby acted on the suggestion, and
pulling the plane from her breast
pocket she placed two fingernails in
the middle and split the tiny aircraft
in two. Minute dots scattered
everywhere and fell to the floor, but she quickly held the ends up to her
face, and tipping her head back,
shook the miniature bits of metal
over her mouth. The pink specks fell into her mouth
and onto her cheeks and chin, and
rolled down the open neck of her
blouse. When she finished her
hands had more specks stuck to
them, and she wiped them off over her breasts and chest. As she did,
tiny red dots appeared at the
bottom of her breast pocket. END
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